The Savage Sacrament is a clarion call of hope for a genuine dialog between Christian feminists and post-Vatican II theologians. Author Silbermann contends in this new study that feminists and theologians have 'duelled for too long and it is time for them to learn to dance together'. In theologians and feminists maintain their long-standing mutual indifference, Ms. Silbermann argues, they will continue to 'impoverish both the Church and women.